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Xavier Alcalá is one of Galicia’s most established writers. He has published over twenty works of fiction in the last thirty years. Themes in his work include emigration and the Spanish Civil War. Most recently he has published the trilogy Evangelical Memory, an extremely well documented account of the experiences of the Evangelical communities in Galicia during the twentieth century. Other well known novels include Our Ashes and Fable. He has written widely about his travels in Latin America and been a reg
Marilar Aleixandre is professor of experimental sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is the author of several collections of poetry and adult and young adult fiction. She has written four novels and a collection of short stories, Wolves on the Islands. Her novel Theory of Chaos received the Xerais Prize for best novel in 2001. Two poetry collections were awarded top prizes, including Mutations, a recreation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses written in the voices of women. She has written several
An Alfaya has studied teacher training and criminology and helped found the Avento Theatre in Vigo as well as providing the voice for Betty Rubble in the Galician version of The Flintstones. She has written important works of fiction and young people’s literature, for which she has won numerous prizes. In the field of adult fiction, she has won the Magariños Award for I Killed a Man (2005), the popular San Clemente Award for Areaquente (2009), and the La Voz de Galicia Award for a novel in instalments for S